4. In this chapter, you read many examples of companies, industry groups, and government agencies investing in IT infrastructure that ultimately reduced GHGs and CO2 emissions.

Compare and contrast the green initiatives at Argonne’s CNM to the biofuel initiative in Nigeria discussed in IT at Work 14.1.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is renowned for its research centers in energy and environmental science, computation and biosciences, and national security.
Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) studies the behavior of nanoscale materials (nano.anl.gov). Nanoscale materials are slightly larger than the size of atoms and need to be studied with the CNM’s nanoscope, the world’s most powerful X-ray microscope (shown in Figure 14.8). The CNM’s mission is to find new energy technologies and to understand and mitigate the environmental impacts of energy use.
Researchers study nanoscale materials and devices to learn how to harvest solar energy more efficiently and to enable next-generation computing.